Current Time in Buenos Aires

About time in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires runs on Argentina Time, a fixed UTC-3 offset that never shifts for daylight saving. The whole country has stayed on this single offset for years, so the clock you see here is the same in January and in July. That stability makes scheduling with Argentina refreshingly simple, since you don't need to track seasonal transitions. For most of the year Buenos Aires sits one hour ahead of New York, though that gap widens when North America moves its own clocks.

Buenos Aires does not make seasonal clock changes under its current rules. Its offset is UTC-3 (no DST). The live clock above reads Buenos Aires's local time directly from the IANA time zone database in your browser, using the rules installed on your device. Keep your browser updated when regional rules change. To plan a call or convert a specific moment, use the timezone converter or meeting planner linked below.

Daylight in Buenos Aires through 2026

Buenos Aires sits at about 34.6°S, 58.4°W. The longest day of 2026 is December 16, with 14h 28m between sunrise and sunset. The shortest is June 17, with 9h 50m, a difference of 4 h 38 min. At this latitude the seasons change day length noticeably but not dramatically, so the working day has usable daylight all year.

Because Buenos Aires is in the Southern Hemisphere, its long days fall in December and January and its short days in June. The earliest sunrise comes around December 2 (05:33) and the latest sunset around January 4 (20:10).

Solar noon, when the sun is highest, falls at about 13:00 local time in late March, 12:55 in late June and 12:51 in late December. In standard time the sun is highest at about 12:54 on average, roughly 54 minutes after 12:00, so the civil clock runs ahead of sun time and evenings feel late in Buenos Aires.

Local clock times, including daylight saving where it applies. Calculated with the standard sunrise equation for the city centre; terrain and tall buildings can delay the visible sunrise.

Clock changes in Buenos Aires (2026–2027)

Buenos Aires keeps the same offset all year. No clock changes are scheduled in 2026 or 2027 under the time-zone rules used for this page. Its gap to cities that do observe daylight saving still changes when they move their clocks: in January Buenos Aires is 3 hours behind London and 2 hours ahead of New York.

Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled with this site’s build. Governments occasionally change rules at short notice; see our methodology.